CHAP. 210.—An ACT to incorporate Cottage Grange, No. 688, of Nor-
folk county.

Approved March 6, 1880.

Whereas an organization is established at Denby’s church,
in Norfolk county, Virginia, known as Cottage Grange, number
six hundred and eighty-eight, which has for its object the
fostering and development of the interests of agriculture, as
well as the mutual aid and protection of its members in times
of sickness or distress, the care of the widow and the orphan,
and other benevolent purposes, and for the purpose of securing
the advantages of co-operation in matters affecting their mutual
interests—

1. Be it, therefore, enacted by the general assembly of Vir-
ginia, That William A. McWhorter, George S. Bunting, Wil-
liam Henry Wilkins, C. J. Jones, John A. Simpson, Joseph L.
Guy, George E. Cromwell, J. W. Ironmonger, Seaton Christian,
George S. Cromwell, and R. T. Powell, and all other persons
who are now and who may hereafter be associated with them,
and their successors, shall be and they are hereby constituted
a body politic and corporate by the name and style of Cottage
Grange, Number Six Hundred and Eighty-eight, and by that
name shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, and
may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in all courts and
places, and in all manner of actions and complaints whatever,
and may make by-laws and regulations not inconsistent with
this act and the laws of this state and of the United States for
the government of its officers and proper conduct of its affairs,
and shall possess and enjoy all.other privileges and franchises
incident to a corporation.

2. The capital stock of said corporation shall not be less than
one thousand dollars nor more than twenty thousand dollars,
and shall be divided into shares of not less than ten dollars
each.

3. The amount of property, real, personal or mixed, which
may be held by the said corporation at any one time, shall not
exceed twenty thousand dollars, which property shall be man-
aged by the trustees of said corporation (unless otherwise pro-
vided by the by-laws of said corporation), who may, under the
direction of said corporation, rent, sell, convey, invest, or in
anywise dispose of said property for the best interests of said
corporation, and the property acquired by this corporation shall
be vested exclusively in the same, and shall at all times during
the existence of this corporation, and at its dissolution, be sub-
ject to the paramount authority and control in its ultimate dis-
position of a majority of the holders of the shares of stock
therein.

4. The persons above named shall be the trustees of said
corporation until it shall be otherwise determined by the mem-
bers of said corporation, in accordance with its by-laws, and
they shall hold their offices until their successors shall be
elected or appointed.

5. The number of trustees who shall constitute a quorum
for the transaction of business shall be determined by the by-
laws of the corporation.

6. This act shall be in force from its passage.